“Star Trek Beyond” Nominated For 4 Saturn Awards + TAS Blu-ray Too

The nominations for the 43rd Saturn Awards were announced today and Star Trek Beyond has been nominated in four categories. Not only that but Star Trek: The Animated Series and some Trek alums have also been nominated. Get the details below.

Beyond Picks Up 4 Saturn Nominations

Today the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror announced the nominees for their 43rd Annual Saturn Awards. Star Trek Beyond garnered four nominations, including Best Science Fiction Film where it will be going up against Arrival, Independence Day: Resurgence, Midnight Special, Passengers, and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Two Beyond cast members have also been nominated: Chris Pine for Best Actor and Zachary Quinto for Best Supporting Actor. And finally Monica Huppert and Joel Harlow are nominated for Best Make-up.

Also up for four Saturn nominations is the JJ Abrams produced 10 Cloverfield Lane and Deadpool, however other films racked up even more, especially Rogue One which lead with 11 nominations. Beyond’s four nominations is the fewest of the Abrams trilogy, with 2009’s Star Trek garnering six nominations (including one win) and Into Darkness had five nominations. Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek: First Contact tie for the record number of Saturn nominations with ten each.

Barney Burman with his 2010 Saturn for Best Make-up for “Star Trek”

TAS Nominated

Beyond wasn’t the only Trek honored by the Saturns. CBS’ 2016 Blu-ray release of Star Trek: The Animated Series was nominated for Best DVD or Blu-ray Television Release. It’s going up against releases from Banshee, Hannibal, Mr. Robot, Salem’s Lot, and Versailles.

A number of Star Trek alumni are nominated for Saturns this year. As noted before, JJ Abrams is nominated as producer for Best Thriller with 10 Cloverfield Lane. Star Trek Into Darkness’ Khan Benedict Cumberbatch was nominated for Best Actor for Doctor Strange. Winona Ryder (Star Trek‘s Amanda Grayson) was nominated for Best Actress (TV) for Stranger Things. Three VFX artists who worked on Star Trek before were nominated for Best Visual Effects: Richard Bluff (Doctor Strange), John Knoll (Rogue One) and Robert Legato (who won the Oscar last weekend for The Jungle Book). Finally, Michael Giacchino didn’t get nominated for Best Music for his work on Star Trek Beyond but he did for his work on Rogue One.

Composer Michael Giacchino nominated for his work in “Rogue One”

A full list of nominees can be found at the official SaturnAwards.org. The 43rd Annual Saturn Awards will be held on June 21st in Burbank, California.

I dunno how MG got a nom for Rogue One but not Beyond!!! Night on the Yorktown alone should’ve gotten him not just a nom but a win

March 2, 2017 4:36 pm

ML31

As good as his work on Rogue One was it did lift some cues for John Williams’ original work from 1977’s Star Wars. It worked great but it incorporated some unoriginal elements. His work for Beyond he lifted a great deal from himself.

March 3, 2017 7:22 am

Thorny

The folks who made “Arrival” can probably start preparing a spot for the award now. Far and away better than the other nominees.

March 2, 2017 4:39 pm

Michael Hall

Totally agree. With the possible exception of 2001, it’s very likely the best movie about first contact ever made. I’m no hater of BEYOND, but it’s cheap fast food by comparison.

March 2, 2017 6:10 pm

ML31

I haven’t seen it but I think it might be tough to surpass Close Encounters of the Third Kind… Looking forward to seeing it when it gets to the top of my Netflix Cue.

March 3, 2017 7:23 am

Michael Hall

No comparison. CE3K is a well-made (natch), feelgood pastiche of UFO encounter cliches, with Doug Trumbull’s visual marvels as the payoff for sticking around for the third act. ARRIVAL doesn’t even pretend to be that kind of crowd-pleasing spectacle, but it’s based on a standout short story by one of the genre’s best writers, relates some fascinating notions about the conundrum of communicating with aliens who are truly alien while keeping the motives of its very human characters front and center, and is only slightly burdened by a standard Hollywood subplot about the world’s nations overcoming tribalism and learning to cooperate. If it manages to lose to BEYOND or ROGUE ONE I’ll have to consider the Saturn awards as not to be taken very seriously.

March 3, 2017 10:53 am

KAPT CHRUNCH

Another one of those nominated movies that no one saw this year! But on that note a lot less people saw Beyond..so???

March 3, 2017 6:09 am

Will

Greg Grunberg just absolutely takes me out of everything he’s in.

March 2, 2017 4:52 pm

Tom

He’s a non-talented sack of fat who only get roles because he’s been BFFs with JJ Abrams since they were kids.

March 2, 2017 10:53 pm

David Cheng

The Saturn Awards website says the show is slated for June 28, not June 21.

March 2, 2017 7:43 pm

Tiger2

Congrats Beyond! :)

Gumball one of the few actors who been in Star Trek and Star Wars. And both essentially in the same year of each other. Pretty cool.